Voicing the 'Voiceless':Post Independence Indian Street Theatre

Bruce King rightly describes postcolonial nations as the new centres of consciousness in late twentieth century literature, in which writing has been shaped in important ways by the politics of nationalism as well as the themes of the long period of cultural assertion and opposition that was part of the context of political independence (Dharwadker 21). All over Mia the fifties and sixties were times of political unrest and social upheaval.